rarity alert: "Rival Schools "can't be re-released" capcom says

[Ed Oscuro]

Rarity =/= value.

Thank you sir.

And thanks to jaekwon for pointing me to the possibility of deals on Chronicles. Honestly, this rerelease stuff is good for everybody. It's kind of like how Chronicles was supposed to bring down the price of Dracula X68000.

Silly me, I went after that one before emulation was good but after it was no longer completely unknown in the collecting community...I don't think the original X68000 version will ever return to 2003 and prior levels, but it shouldn't be near the peak anymore. That one will always have some real rarity though, especially as the original hardware is hard to locate and import.

[betamax001]

Capcom has so many good series they've completely dropped. I think they should start picking up on a few of their other series, such as Rival Schools, Power Stone, or atleast Breath of Fire.

Or DarkStalkers. I got the PSP game today and I forgot how awesome Vampire Chronicles was. Can you imagine a Dark Stalkers 4 with BlazBlue style HD graphics? *drools*

[Rickstilwell1]

It's likely the soundtrack that's the issue.... that's my guess anyway.

Yeah that would make it the same thing as Earthbound.

[kedawa]

The soundtrack could be swapped out with only a couple hours of work, though.
All they would need to do is decide what to replace it with. Maybe they could use the BGM from Project Justice.

[kaedesdisciple]

let me put it this way...

Castlevania Chronicles for ps1 use to cost at least 70 dollars for a complete version. since the psn release, i can find complete copies for 30 dollars.

Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 on average would cost 100 dollars for a complete version. since the digital release, the game has dropped to aprox. 50 dollars.

now imagine the reverse effect of that. it has been officialy announced that there will be no psn, xbox live, or VC version. not now, not soon, not ever. this news could easily drive the price of existing copies way up.

I understand that creating Capcom and Konami creating the digital download versions of MvC2 and CV Chronicles drove down the physical version prices as there became more ways to play them legally on current systems. That makes perfect sense. However, why would any prices be altered by doing nothing, as Capcom is doing here? The only people I can see driving up prices at this point are speculators that see panicked posts like this and drive up the prices by selling their copies at a higher point thinking that people are going to pay more for them because of a perceived rarity spike.

Good job.

[nectarsis]

The impression that I get is that the Xbox version had a smaller print run.

Both versions had SMALL print runs (not sure which was less). The Xbox version plays much better hence why it was desired more. It used to be the PS2 version went for more $, but that may be due to the PS2 having a much bigger installed base.

[kedawa]

I understand that creating Capcom and Konami creating the digital download versions of MvC2 and CV Chronicles drove down the physical version prices as there became more ways to play them legally on current systems. That makes perfect sense. However, why would any prices be altered by doing nothing, as Capcom is doing here? The only people I can see driving up prices at this point are speculators that see panicked posts like this and drive up the prices by selling their copies at a higher point thinking that people are going to pay more for them because of a perceived rarity spike.

Good job.

The only way I could see this affecting price, is if the availability of downloadable PS1 games drove down prices across the board when the service launched, based on speculation that all games were potential releases. I don't believe that was the case, though.

[jaekwon15]

Good job.

passive agressive much?

[Famidrive-16]

We should take these claims with a grain of salt. Capcom said the exact same thing about Marvel vs. Capcom, claiming they couldn't get the rights. Somehow, they made it happen. I doubt Rival Schools would be as complicated an IP to license as dealing with Marvel would be.

That was way back when some other company (forgot who) had the rights though. I know Marvel really wanted to work with Capcom again, and a deal was worked out when the other contract expired.

Yeah that would make it the same thing as Earthbound.

I still think that rumor's bogus, most likely it's just Nintendo realizing that Earthbound isn't exactly a hot seller.

[Ed Oscuro]

passive agressive much?

I'm glad that you brought this to our attention, but please leave speculation on price fluctuations to the reader. As kaedesdisciple said, there's no evidence that this will make prices skyrocket. They'll just follow the usual patterns for any game that doesn't get a rerelease.